Amazon and Newegg both have some really great finds for used server hardware, full servers available for 100-400 depending on how old they are.

There are also devices like this you might find of value. https://www.amazon.com/Firewall-Appliance-Gigabit-Celeron-AES-NI/dp/B07G7H4M73/ or https://www.amazon.com/PowerEdge-Server-2-66GHz-PERC6i-Renewed/dp/B07QJ6WTV7/

On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 6:23 AM keith Miller via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

All the forementioned are running on a Dell R-610 with 96Gig of Ram and 2TB of diskspace,

 the R-610 cost me about 150.00 and RAM was about 2-3 hundred

Keith

On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 6:20 AM keith Miller <kdmiller45@gmail.com> wrote:

I too have a Cox business account and have been issued 5 static IP and hosting about 8 website from home, using apache and NGINX and one Email server (Zimbra) I have up and running a Discourse applications, Mastodon instance and a OSSN both are decentralized social networks and also a Peertube instance. I use pfsense as my firewall and Proxmox as a hosting O/S for the VM all are free. I also use Webmin to setup the web services

Keith

On Sat, May 8, 2021 at 7:22 PM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

I have a business account with Cox and they allow servers.  It will be
public facing.  I would like to hear more about "it makes assumptions
you may or may not be willing to accept.".

Thank you for your feedback!!

On 2021-05-07 21:19, Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> ISP config is really geared to running an external facing server and
> become hosting. It's very good for that, but it makes assumptions you
> may or may not be willing to accept.
>
> On Fri, May 7, 2021 at 6:31 PM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
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>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am considering configuring a "home web server" using ISPConfig.
>> This
>> is not a production situation.  It is for learning.
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>>
>> Thanks!!
>> Keith
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